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Encore…for a 22nd year!
Thousands to take to the streets for Hoboken Arts & Music Festival

While not sharing the marquee of the 22nd annual Hoboken Arts and Music Festival with musicians like Leon Russell and Amanda Holley, Jersey City-based singer Sylvana Joyce is ecstatic that the biannual festival is coming up again this May. “It’s only a matter of time before the Hoboken/Jersey City music scene is recognized as one …

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All that jazz
Riverview Jazz Festival to expand this year

Although it’s still months away, it’s time to mark the 2016 Riverview Jazz Festival on your calendar. The festival will swing into its fourth year with a week’s worth of music and related attractions at sites in Hoboken and Union City as well as its home venue in Jersey City Heights. Bryan Beninghove, president of …

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Free pre-K in North Bergen, other towns?
Bill seeks to expand program to 100 school districts

Thirty-one school districts in New Jersey currently receive state funds for free pre-K 3 and 4 programs in their public schools. Now, some legislators hope to increase the number past 100 (approximately a sixth of the state’s districts) so that low-income parents in those towns won’t have to pay for early child-care services.The School Funding …

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Six new bus platforms in Secaucus
NJ Transit opens newly renovated transit plaza

In a public ceremony, New Jersey Transit opened a newly expanded bus plaza at the Secaucus Junction train station on Tuesday, March 29. The six new lanes at the bus plaza will serve intrastate lines, interstate lines, requested Secaucus “EZ Ride” rides, and Secaucus shuttle bus routes. The plaza now has a total of 14 …

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Under the bridge
Council unanimously urges county to name park after late politico

The late freeholder Maurice Fitzgibbons’ zeal for politics and public service is considered by many to have been unwavering. First Ward Councilman Michael DeFusco, one of two sponsors of a City Council resolution to name the park under the 14th Street Viaduct after him, said that Fitzgibbons played a key role in the creation of …

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Schoolteacher by day, comedian by night
Local educator raises funds for charity in comic showcase

As a high school math teacher for the past 27 years, North Bergen resident Janet Regensburg is used to tough audiences. So when it comes to her downtime, one might expect her to stay out of the spotlight. Not so. Instead, she fills her off hours moonlighting as a professional comedian, working clubs in New …

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Walking on water
Officials open promenade along Laurel Hill Park riverfront

Following a ribbon cutting on April 5, a group of residents and government workers took a walk on the new waterfront promenade that had just opened at Secaucus’ Laurel Hill Park. The U-shaped walkway, which joins the park on Dinosaur Way to the waterfront, will contain or lead to new fishing stations, an existing dog …

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These vets had to fight for respect
At 43rd anniversary of end of Vietnam conflict, local towns pay tribute

Even 43 years after the conclusion of the war in Vietnam, many veterans still have a stinging memory of their return. The war often elicited bad feelings that Americans inappropriately dumped on the shoulders of the men and women who served. “The Vietnam War divided our nation politically. It was often a bitter and violent …

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